CnNrnn f-" JuorcIAL AccouNTABrLITy, r*c. Post Offtee Bax 8l0l TeL $1a) 421-1200 E-Mail: cisCdjudsewatch.ors White Plains, New York 10602 lltebsite: www.iudgewstch.org

January 28,2016

TO: Temporary Senate President John Flanagan Assembly Speaker Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins Assembly Minority Leader

FROM: Elena Sassower, Director Center for Judicial Accountability, Inc. (CJA)

SUBJECT: To Which.Committee(s).Have Yo-u Assigned Oversight of the December 24" 2015 Report of the Commission on Legislative. Judicial & Executive Compensation - & the Legislature's Duty to Not Only Override its Judicial Salary Increase Recommendations, but to Repeal the Commission Statute, etc.

This follows up my January 15,2016letter entitled "IMMEDIATE OVERSIGHT REQUIRED", which requested (at p. 5), consistent with your leadership positions, that you make an "appropriate direction" as to which committee(s), in your respective houses, you are assigning the responsibility of oversight over the December 24,2015 Report of the Commission on Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation - and the Legislature's duty to not only override its judicial salary increase recofilmendations, but to repeal the Commission statute, etc.1

Please advise as to which committee(s) you have made such assignment.

Meantime, in preparation for the Legislature's February 4,2016 "public protection" budget hearing, at which the Judiciary is heard with respect to its budget, I have written letters to Chief Judge DiFiore and to the Senate and Assembly fiscal and judiciary committees. Copies are enclosed. Thank you. pa,rvt€'fu*.* ?dw Enclosures cc's: next page

' The January l5,20l6letter, as likewise this letter, is posted on CJA's website, wu,wiudsewatch.ors, accessible via the prominent homepage link: "NO PAY RAISES FOR NEW YORK's CORRUPT PUBLIC OFFIeERS. The Money Belongs to their Victims!" Senate and Assembly Majority & Minority Leaders Page Two January 28,2016

cc: Senate Finance Committee Chair: Senator Catharine Young Ranking Member: Senator Liz Krueger Assembly Ways and Means Committee Chair: Assemblyman Herman Farrell, Jr. Ranking Member: Assemblyman Bob Oaks Senate Judici?ry Committee Chair: Senator John Bonacic Ranking Member: Senator Ruth Hassell-Thompson Assembly Judiciar.v Committee Chair: Assemblywoman Ranking Member: Assemblyman Senate Committee on Investisatio.4s .and 9overnment Q.Jefations Chair: Senator Andrew LanzalDeputy Senate Majority Leader for Government Oversight & Accountability Ranking Member: Senator Brad Hoylman Assembly Committee on Government Operations Chair: Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples-Stokes Ranking Member: Assemblywoman Janet Duprey Assembly Committee on Oversigilrt. Analysis and Investigation Chair: Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee Ranking Member: Assemblyman Peter Lawrence Sponsors of Assembly Bill #7997 Assemblyrnan Andy Goodell Assemblyman Peter Lopez Assemblywoman Janet Duprey AssemblSrman Bill Nojay Assemblyman Mark Johns

Chief Judge Janet DiFiore Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence Marks